Kettering Arena leisure village lake super pick

On Wednesday, I will do the very stupid thing of trying to finally clean up the Leisure village Lake. This will be the 7th pick of the 2018 1 Tonne River Plastics Clean-up. The lake and its banks are so heavily littered with toxic plastic that it is a wonder anything can live in and around it at all. I'll try to tackle the margins with the help of my 6ft Streetmaster Pro picker and my waders. I'll probably get stuck, but hopefully a passer by with call the coast guard.

The lake has been totally neglected, as have many of the Council controlled sites, as budgets have dwindled. To my knowledge, the KLV site hasn't been picked since its creation during the summer of 1993, just after the A14 was built.

Goodness knows what guests and customers of the Kettering arena and wedding venue think, when they have their picture taken on the veranda, overlooking the pristine aquatic rubbish dump which lays beneath them on the banks of the lake. Where did English people's pride go, that they fill their rivers and lakes with refuse?

Hopefully if I can put in 10 hours picking, I'll make a start on getting this former small holder's field, compulsory purchased and flooded, (but not just with water), back to it's plastic free state. If you want to help be part of the epic fight back against plastic in our waterways and greenspaces, please donate any amount you can spare, so that we can buy a proper boat and syringe proof gloves.

To help us buy some River clean-up equipment, so we can face this problem all guns blazing, please donate via our paypal link.